If you’re looking at implementing Team Foundation Server, looking for ways to improve your deployment, or just want to know how one of the world’s largest software companies manages their day-to-day development, ...

Jeff Atwood talks about what he considers the “Golden Rule” of source control: Check in early, check in often. For Jeff, it seems, going more than 1 day without checking in code is too long and will cause ...

When using TFS within Visual Studio, if you undo pending changes on an ASPX file by right-clicking on that file in Solution Explorer and selecting "Undo Pending Changes", pay close attention to the dialog ...

Sometimes Visual Studio 2008 (Team System Developer Edition - with Team Explorer and TFS Power Tools) crashes (disappearing completely) when running unit tests. I have not yet tried SP1 for VS2008 - will ...

I came across an interesting issue with ASP files recently and I wanted to share it. My customer was working on some old ASP files that were written in Visual Interdev and wanted to make them editable ...

*Moved to: Heat ITSMIn Aggreko we use a product called Heat ITSM to manage our support calls. Now all of these calls are tracked using its tracking system, but we (Group Development) want to track using ...

Last I attended a TFS User Group meeting in Minneapolis. Bill Maurer explained how Microsoft used Team Foundation Server to build the next release of Visual Studio. It was really interesting to hear how ...

Hi y'all Today I was asking myself an interesting question. So please everyone who read this please give comments!!!! Me as a developer, I do not like rules for Source Control. But as soon as your local ...

You may run into this at some point. TFS Team Build may not deploy some assembly file you needed. If you look through the logs, you will see something like this (cleaned up for readability): C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Fr... ...

The great DevTeach conference is coming to Montreal this year again from December 1-5 and i’ll be speaking again. I have 2 sessions in the new Team System track: Adopting Team System You have seen the ...

We're shaking things up a bit over here at NINEQuestions.net. My 32nd cousin (she was born a Williams) and temporary co-host Rachel Appel is turning things around and asking me the questions this time. ...

Hello everyone, With SQL 2008 shipping late last week it was time to try my hands at this scenario. It worked great but with a few things to remember. Here is the lowdown. There are two way to go about ...

*Moved to: Hosted Sticky BuddyI now have a nice hosted version of the TFS Sticky Buddy that is fairly fast and deploys using ClickOnce, but you do need to make sure that you already have .NET 3.5 and Team ...

There is a great new site dedicated to educating developers on all sorts of topics. It is run by developers, and the contributors are developers. My first episode had been released: Creating a Project ...

*Moved to: RDdotNETWell I finally got of by behind and set up a site for RDdotNET, its not special or clever, but it does let me host ClickOnce Applications like the TFS Sticky Buddy and give a single ...

As President of the Bartlesville .NET User Group I get many people asking me if I know of people looking for jobs. I have decided to start posting the positions on my blog as well hoping to help the companies ...

I’m catching up on blog posts and saw this one from Brian Harry about the TFS Power Tools and Software Assurance. In that post he asks “How are Power Tools monetized?” and goes on to mention that there ...

Often during development I end up with "Constants" classes, classes of constant or static values that I want design time Visual Studio intellisense support for, and run-time domain checking. Consider the ...

The Twin Cities Developers Guild had our kickoff/cookout this evening. We had an excellent turnout and served up a bunch of burgers and hot dogs. Afterwards, Jason Bock gave his talk on "Writing Better ...

I've been using Google Desktop Search for some time now. Most of it however, I don't find useful. I never search my desktop, and store my mail on a different server, so I miss out on a lot of the Google ...

*Moved to: TFS Error: MSB4018 The "BuildShadowTask" task failed unexpectedlyThere seams to be a problem in MSBuild when you add an “Accessor” as part of a Unit Test project. C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\Vis... ...

We recently put this list of resources together for an ISV. Here's some great info, if you are in the process of evaluating or trying to bring Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) into your organization. These ...

One of my first Windows applications was an Access 2.0 database. Man has Access changed since then! Recently one of my customers needed to be able to source control some of their Access 2003 database. ...

Readify, an Australian company, has launched the world's first hosted Team Foundation Server product offering. It allows you to access you TFS server from anywhere in the world without having to make a ...

Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product team û This Wednesday Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, ...

I found a very excellent blog post the other day from Jimmy Li on understanding the TFS Cube. It even has short videos! The samples are in Excel 2007, but I was able to follow along in 2003 with no major ...

I will be presenting on August 25th at the first annual Houston Tech Fest at the University of Houston. I will be giving two sessions: Making your test lab obsolete with Virtualization and TFS Understanding ...

I had an interesting situation this past week. I have not ever had to migrate a web site (without a web application project) from VSS to TFS before. It turns out that there were some quirks that I had ...

I know this is a little late, but I try to space out my posts and this one fell through the cracks! Anyhow, Microsoft has purchased devBiz the makers of Team Plain. If you are unfamiliar with Team Plain, ...

So those of you who know me know that I have a mantra. That mantra goes something like this (depending on the amount of sleep I have had the night before): "Fancy tools make you weak." While I was preparing ...

So I spent a good part of this week off and on tracking down an issue with Team Build. I started with a website project that referenced a compiled DLL (not a project). Once I added the web deployment project ...

A while ago I posted that merges by label in TFS Source control do not take into account deleted files. While at Tech Ed at few weeks ago I had a chance to "share my feelings" about this issue with members ...

Come chat with the Team System product team û July 3rd Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for ...

I ran into an issue with SP 1 for Visual Studio 2005. I installed the service pack before I installed Team Explorer. I installed Team Explorer today and when I connected to my Team Foundation Server I ...

So what happens when you create a long list of Bugs or Task in Team System and realize that you have not used the correct naming convention or you have assigned the wrong priority? Well Team System gives ...

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. ...

Microsoft with the help of the Rangers (don't ask me) has released guidance on branching and merging for TFS Source Control.á If I have worked with you in the past, there is a lot of things in the guide ...

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. ...

Sorry that I have not blogged in a while.á I have been working on the VSTS TS Certification and it has taken all of my extra time! If you have a common library that is used in more than one project you ...

Visual Studio Team System Chat - Wed, Nov 8th Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, ...

We have had trouble getting Team Build to build and deploy web apps.á While it was still in beta, I downloaded the web deployment project and it still did not give us exactly what we needed with web apps ...

This week, I had the pleasure of being invited to Microsoft to help define the objective domain for the Team Foundation Server Technology Specialist certification. My flight to Seattle was scheduled to ...

This is the first of a series of posts that will hopefully unravel the beast that is Team Build.á The first thing that you should know about Team Build is what it actually is.á Team Build is a MS Build ...

I ran across an interesting issue recently and I wanted to share the solution.á I am currently working on a fairly large project.á We have had a turbulent start and I was not able to baseline my project ...

I ran across an interesting issue recently and I wanted to share the solution.á I am currently working on a fairly large project.á We have had a turbulent start and I was not able to baseline my project ...